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Between the devil and the host : imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland /

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Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches showing how ordinary peasant women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostling, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Past & present book series.
Subjects:
Witch hunting > Poland > History.
Occultism > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Catholics > Religious identity > Poland > History.
Chasse aux sorcières > Pologne > Histoire.
Occultisme > Aspect religieux > Église catholique.
Catholiques > Identité religieuse > Pologne > Histoire.
Renaissance.
Social History.
History.
RELIGION.
Catholics > Religious identity
Occultism > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Witch hunting
Poland
Häxprocesser > historia > Polen.
Occultism > Romersk-katolska kyrkan.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : at the crossroads
  • I. History. Contexts ; Imagining witchcraft in literature and law ; A winding road to the stake ; Mechanisms of justice
  • II. Religion. Healing and harming ; Stealing the sacred ; Broken bodies ; Piety in the torture chamber
  • III. Demonology. A candle for the devil ; Demon lovers ; Translating the devil
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix : Polish witch-trials 1511-1775.